Posted: 5/8/2025 12:12:05 PM EDT
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My new property is mostly clay and so far the onions, zucchinis, squash, peppers and tomatoes love it....corn, cucumbers and egg plant hate it What do you find grows best in your land? |
| Yeah. I'm surrounded by heavy clay here. We ended up having to do raised beds filled with compost from a local distributor by the truckload. Some things can go right in the clay, most not though. |
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Of stuff you might actually care about... persimmon. I have pretty heavy clay soil and a bunch of wild, native black persimmon trees on my property. So they don't seem to mind the clay. Also a few wild mulberry trees. Prickly pear? That doesn't seem to mind. Lots of wild grapes, too. I think so long as it drains, alot of things will grow ok in heavy clay soil even if it isn't ideal for them regarding pH and nutrient absorption issues. |
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Originally Posted By 1Andy2: Of stuff you might actually care about... persimmon. I have pretty heavy clay soil and a bunch of wild, native black persimmon trees on my property. So they don't seem to mind the clay. Also a few wild mulberry trees. Prickly pear? That doesn't seem to mind. Lots of wild grapes, too. I think so long as it drains, alot of things will grow ok in heavy clay soil even if it isn't ideal for them regarding pH and nutrient absorption issues. I got a bunch of fruit around me like persimmons, blackberry, and muscadines that if you tried to plant wouldn't grow but do great on their own Let of people grow feed corn in the clay but my sweet corn hates it |
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Originally Posted By SC4eyes: Flint rocks.  I have tons of quartz which one rock being hit by my play and had to use the bucket to move it. It's the rest for my gate now, before I plant anything I plow and make it a game for the kids to collect the most quartz rocks before I till |
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Originally Posted By douglasmorris99: Weed Not the profitable kind either This. I think we have every evasive foreign weed ever brought over here. Plus Bermuda grass. Weeds and vines are the bane of my existence. Roundup season coming up soon. |
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I’ll also add a lot of good stuff. We have loamy dirt. Blueberries, pecan trees, blackberries, satsumas, grapes, etc. These are wild dewberries. Attached File |
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Attached File Most of what is in this book. |
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Originally Posted By Oldgold: This. I think we have every evasive foreign weed ever brought over here. Plus Bermuda grass. Weeds and vines are the bane of my existence. Roundup season coming up soon. Originally Posted By Oldgold: Originally Posted By douglasmorris99: Weed Not the profitable kind either This. I think we have every evasive foreign weed ever brought over here. Plus Bermuda grass. Weeds and vines are the bane of my existence. Roundup season coming up soon. Same in my part of the state, plus Sweetgum trees. I hate sweetgum trees but they pop up everywhere. Fortunately no kudzu on my property but there is some close by enough to keep a look out for it. |
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| Tumble weeds and sagebrush. Tried a garden a couple times but gophers and other rodents got most of it. Out of 7 hills of potatoes, heathly looking plants, I think I got two potatoes. Last year I had an old bathtub with the edges curled outward. Had it down by the wash thinking that the rodents wouldn't be able to get in, I was wrong. Damned packrats can jump up 3 feet. Oh, and cactus. Get lots of fruit off the prickly pear but the rodents like them too but there is too many fruits even for the rats. |
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Right now my dirt is mud and nothing is growing except remnants of last year's weeds. That said, I have brown clay, so it is pretty dense, but not Tennessee or Virginia red clay. That shit is tough to grow in. Mine isn't too bad but it needs a lot of amending, so I just do it in a way that gets the amendments to the plants but not wasted in the aisles and surrounding soil. once I do get going, I have taken to only tilling part of the garden, where I mound up rows and make a little trough in the mound and drive down each row with a bucketful of compost from last years grass clippings. Then I plant seeds in the mixture of clay soil and pure compost, and the tractor tracks make walkable rows. any transplants like tomatoes or eggplant get a hole dug right where they go and a mixture of the compost and clay soil. |
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My soil is a very sandy clay, and my property has a lot of slope so I'm constantly fighting erosion. If the sand washes out it leaves behind heavy clay. Lawn maintenance is a nightmare because if something damages the grass, rain will quickly turn that area into a "scalloped" area through erosion. For the area I leveled out to garden, I used lime and a generous load of composted mulch to amend the soil. It does much better and makes a good home for peppers, tomatoes, and beans, which are about the only thing I've even tried to grow. I just have to be wary of how deep to till or plant because there's clay underneath. |
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